18.On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

19.if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined in your prison, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,

20.and bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so.

21.Then they said to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us and we would not listen; therefore is this distress come upon us."

22.And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the lad? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood."

23.They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.

24.Then he turned away from them and wept; and he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

25.And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.

27.And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack;

28.and he said to his brothers, "My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!" At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

29.When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had befallen them, saying,

30."The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the land.

32.we are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

33.Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, `By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.

34.Bring your youngest brother to me; then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver to you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.'"

35.As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.

36.And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me."

37.Then Reuben said to his father, "Slay my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you."

38.But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm should befall him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."